Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management by Beverly Pasia

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This second edition of the book provides a complete guide to research practice on project management.

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Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management is the most comprehensive guide on how to do research on and in project management. Project management as a discipline has experienced near-exponential growth in its application across the business and not-for-profit sectors. This second edition of the authoritative reference book offers a substantial update on the first edition with over 60% new content and so provides both practitioner and student researchers with a fully up-to-date and complete guide to research practice on project management.In Design Methods and Practices for Research of Project Management, Beverly Pasian and Rodney Turner have brought together 26 original chapters from many of the leading international thinkers in project management research. The collection looks at each step in the research stages, including research strategy, management, methodology (quantitative and qualitative), and techniques as well as how to share and publish research findings. The chapters offer an international perspective with examples from a wide range of project management applications; engineering, construction, megaprojects, high-risk environments, and social transformation. Each chapter includes tips and exercises for the research student, as well as a complete set of further references.The book is the go-to text for practitioners undertaking research in companies, and also doctoral and master's students and their supervisors who are involved in research projects in and for universities.

Author Biography

Beverly Pasian has turned her career to creative and socially responsible dimensions of project management research during the past 10 years. Research method design, gender leadership of projects and quality-of-life achievement in smart city development are at the top of this list. New publications are coming in each along with ongoing profiling of smart city projects and the cities that sponsor them. Association leadership continues within the Special Interest Group (Smarter Cities) of the International Project Management Association, on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Smart Cities Technical Community and as conference chair of the European Technology Management Conferences. Always eager to collaborate, Beverly welcomes contact from anyone who shares these interests!Rodney Turner is the author or editor of 18 books, including The Handbook of Project-based Management and the Gower Handbook of Project Management. He was editor of The International Journal of Project Management from 1993–2018. He is a visiting professor at the University of Leeds and honorary professor at the University of Warwick. Most recently, he was Professor of Project Management at SKEMA Business School, Lille, France; SAIPEM Professor of Project Management at the Politecnico di Milano; and Professor and High-End Foreign Expert at Shanghai University. In 2004, he received a lifetime research achievement award from the Project Management Institute and, in 2012, from the International Project Management Association.

Table of Contents

Foreword Section 1 Where you can startChapter 1 Ontology, Epistemology and Axiology: Understand your philosophy and approachOle Jonny Klakegg, and Ida Marie TvedtChapter 2 Transferring from hunches to a compelling research topicDerek Walker and Beverley Lloyd-WalkerChapter 3 Critical engagement of previous researchSteven NijhuisChapter 4 The construction of research aims and questionsRodney TurnerChapter 5 Project management research ethicsHelgi Þór Ingason and Haukur Ingi Jónasson and Thordur Vikingur FridgeirssonSection 2 The value of mixing things upChapter 6 Mixed methods for strategising in project management researchKaryne AngChapter 7 Interview methodology for understanding projects, project management and temporary organisingAnette Hallin, Abo Akademi and Jenny HelinChapter 8 Case study research in project managementRodney TurnerChapter 9 Action research and project managementShankar Sankaran and Bob DickChapter 10 Experiment-based research in project and portfolio managementCatherine KillenChapter 11 Creating surveys to test theory in a project contextBlaize Reich and Andrew GeminoSection 3 Specific ideas foro emergent environmentsChapter 12 A novel method for exploring collaboration in project meetingsMona Abd Al-Salam, Catherine Killen and Perry ForsytheChapter 13 Narrative Inquiry in Project ManagementShankar SankaranChapter 14 Autoethnography: bridging the project manager-researcher divideRafaella Broft and Simon AddymanChapter 15 An agile approach to the real experience of developing research methodology and methodsHany Wells and Hedley SmythChapter 16 Researching project impact in smart cities: methodological considerationsBeverly PasianChapter 17 Integrating information modelling simulation for smart operation and management in hospitalsYongkui Li, Yan Zhang, Xihu Pan and Yilong HanChapter 18 Project management research in the era of artificial intelligenceSeyed Ashkan Zarghami, Jantanee Dumrak and Roslyn CameronChapter 19 Collaborating for studying projects: the example of welfare technology introduction in SwedenLucia Crevani, Michela Cozza and Silvia BruzzoneSection 4 Analyzing and publishingChapter 20 Critical thinking as a core project management skillAlexia NalewaikChapter 21 Analysing qualitative dataFrancesco Di MaddaloniChapter 22 Using text mining to validate qualitative findings James Marion and Tracey RichardsonChapter 23 The urge to publish: Transforming your dissertation into a publicationsDarren DalcherChapter 24 Writing research papersKam Jugdev and John WyzalekSection 5 Considering the futureChapter 25 Mentoring: An essential aspect of researcher developmentDeepak Bajaj and Pooja BajajChapter 26 The future of project management research is complexLouis Klein

Details ISBN1032123877 Author Rodney Turner Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Edition Description 2nd edition Year 2024 Edition 2nd ISBN-13 9781032123875 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781032744964 Edited by Rodney Turner Audience Tertiary & Higher Education Illustrations 37 Tables, black and white; 32 Line drawings, black and white; 9 Halftones, black and white; 41 Illustrations, black and white Replaces 9781409448808 Publication Date 2024-05-23 UK Release Date 2024-05-23 Pages 344 ISBN-10 1032123877 DEWEY 658.404072 We've got this

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